UFC light heavyweight Ryan “Superman” Spann is enjoying the biggest win of his career, a landmark knockout victory over Dominick Reyes. Spann, unfortunately, was unable to enjoy a knockout of the night or fight of the night bonus because he failed to meet the division’s 205-pound weight limit. Spann could have cut off his heavy dreadlocks, he claimed on The MMA Hour, but refused to do so for the sake of his children.
“F*** that. My kids have never seen me without my hair, and I’m not about to cut it like that, especially after I did all that work in camp.
Ryan Spann Blames Hair For Failure to Make Weight
I knew I wouldn’t have missed weight, so it was easier for me to accept why I missed it. So I just had to bite that bullet, because I was never cutting it. It was never an option in my mind.
It’s worth a lot more than [$50,000]. I never changed. I’ve had it for, I think I cut it one time, when my oldest who is now 10 was a baby. That’s the last time I cut my hair. So my kids, I have three now, have never seen daddy without hair, so I wasn’t about to pop up on them. ‘Hey, surprise!’ It’s going to be a thing if I decide to do it, which I doubt I will.”
Spann also blamed a mystery illness for his botched weight cut. “I’ve been sick basically the past two weeks now. I’m just now coming out better. I even sound better now. If you listen to me talk after the fight in there, I was nasally. I was trying to breathe the entire time.
So I was just sick. I don’t know what was going around. I had some kind of upper respiratory infection or sinus infection or something, mixed with flu or something. I don’t know what I had, but I was all jacked up.
I couldn’t sit in the sauna. I had three or four pounds [to go] when I woke up and I just couldn’t tolerate staying in there without throwing up. Mucus and all that stuff. Everything was so dry or whatever, every time I got in there, I was probably in there for five or six minutes and then all of a sudden I’d start hacking it. It was bad.”
Regardless, Spann is now in a prime position to pursue UFC gold. Is there more to come from Ryan Spann? Let us know in the comments.
